Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> writes: > Hello, > > the "x11-links" package still has support for XFree86. Considering that > "pkgsrc" doen't even use the old X.org distributed with NetBSD 6.* I am > wondering whether this is still useful. As I read platform/NetBSD.mk, the default is native on 6 and up. However I am using modular on 6, and 6 would not be affected by the change. > I seriously doubt that it is and would therefore like to remove it. As you know, some people run old no-longer-supported versions of operating systems like OS X 10.7 ;-) I'd like to avoid us losing support for older versions of Free software systems if it isn't causing trouble. netbsd-5 in particular is not so crufty and I'd like to avoid problems on that, but that seems to use xorg in base, and if I am following correctly NetBSD 4 is the last NetBSD branch to use XFree86. However, pkgsrc on netbsd-4 and -5 defaults to and only really works with modular From pkgsrc, so your proposed change doesn't actually hurt people on netbsd-4. Is that description correct? Are there are systems, even ancient, where this change will cause reduced functionality? Or are you saying that on all systems, we either default to X11_TYPE=modular or the base is at least xorg?
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